Adding a Flipboard magazine to a widget

Create a new widget in NOW

In NOW, navigate to the Learning Room where you wish to have the widget:

  1. Go to Edit Room > Widgets.
  2. At top, click the button Create Widget.
  3. Give the widget a name e.g. 'Flipboard feed' and a simple description (not seen by students)
  4. Click Save and Close. You will return here later.

Note: You can also embed a flipboard magazine into any NOW web page editor using the same technique as detailed below.

Find your Flipboard magazine and get the embed code

Go to Flipboard Web tools page https://share.flipboard.com/ and select the Magazine Widget option in the Promote Yourself section.

Click on Magazine Widget

Now open a magazine on the web and paste its URl into the Flipboard Magazine URL* field, then clcik the create button to get the HTML 'embed' code.

Paste in the Magazine URL and then click create

The HTML 'embed' code required for NOW has been created and can be found underneath in the Preview & Code section.

The Magazine embed code

Copy this code (right click > Copy)

Note: This link can be tested by clicking on image of the magazine which should open the magazine in a new tab in the browser.

Add the code to the Flipboard widget in NOW

In NOW, navigate to the Learning Room where you created the widget:

  1. Go to Edit Room > Widgets.
  2. Locate your new widget from the list of custom widgets and open it using the orange pencil edit icon on the right side.
  3. Click the Content tab. In the editor locate and click the </> icon at the bottom.
  4. Paste in the embed code you copied from the Flipboard site.
  5. Click Update then Save and Close.

To add this widget to your homepage go to Adding and positioning widgets on your homepage Web Page.

Note: You can also embed a flipboard magazine into a NOW web page in the content tool using the same process as detailed above.